Name
Harry Vigus
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
16/06/1917
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/19361
The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
11th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY
XV. F. 5.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Ware Town Memorial
St Mary’s Church Memorial, Ware
Pre War
Born on 16 Jan 1892 and baptised on 10 Apr 1892 in Dover, Kent son of Robert Henry and Annie Vigus. He was living in Westmill Road, Ware in 1901. He married Mabel Blanche Baker on 18 Feb 1915 in Croydon and was a newsagent living at 40 West Street, Croydon and had one daughter.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Croydon on 12 Dec 1915 formerly 30534, Middlesex Regiment, entered France on 20 May 1917 and died of gunshot wounds to the thigh and arm in 3rd Canadian Casualty Clearing Station in Lijssenthoek only three weeks later.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
